First Focus on Children gathered experts and day-to-day implementers of H.R. 1 from key states to discuss the law’s impact on Medicaid, SNAP, and children's social safety net. Watch by clicking below.
Children's Budget 2025 finds that the share of federal spending on children has declined for the fourth straight year, hitting its lowest point since the previous Trump Administration.
Our policy team analyzes the granular policy agenda intended to serve as the “playbook” for a Republican presidential administration. This extremist agenda proposes measures that would leave America’s children poorer, sicker, and less likely to become productive citizens. Our series explores some of the most harmful proposals.
Babies in the Budget 2025 tracks the federal government's chronic underfunding of the nation's babies. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, just 1.59% of all federal spending went toward supporting children under 3. This investment will shrink further as historic cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enacted by the recent reconciliation bill take effect.
One helpful attribute of the Trump Administration: it often says the quiet part out loud. But not always. Flying…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode, Messellech “Selley” Abebe chats with Maria Davis-Pierre and Cheryl…
First Focus on Children has urged the Texas Education Agency to revise implementation of state Senate Bill 12, which…
Members of the House this week began carving up the Department of Education and doling out the spoils —…
In a letter sent today to all members of Congress, First Focus Campaign for Children urged lawmakers to oppose…
First Focus on Children joined nearly 2,000 organizations in a letter opposing a proposed rule by the Office of…
For more than 15 years, First Focus on Children has produced our annual Children’s Budget, an analysis of the funding — and therefore the value — that we as a nation place on our children. The Children’s Budget offers U.S. leaders and lawmakers a comprehensive picture of where and how we spend our money on children, and what changes we must make to better prioritize them in federal budget and policy decisions.
